AutoMate - Car Dashboard: Driv

BitSpice

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About this app

AutoMate makes common services available to while you're driving. With AutoMate, you get the right information at the right time, so you can focus on the road.

Basic features
• Maps – Search for directions and launch your favorite navigation app for turn-by-turn directions.
• Places – Search for nearby places such as gas stations and restaurants, with one click.
• Phone – Call your favorite contacts, see call log, and easily dial a number
• Messaging – Send and reply to SMS messages, hands free replying available for many popular messaging apps
• Voice – Take control of the app through voice commands for navigation, music, and more
• Contextual Information - Receive weather updates, see recent searches, receive speed limit alerts, and more
• Media Control – Control many popular media apps using buttons or gestures
• Shortcuts – Keep your favorite apps and Android shortcuts at your fingertips. Includes quick settings toggles.
• Data – View real-time engine data from an OBDII adapter with Torque integration.

Premium Features
• Set AutoMate as a launcher while it is running
• Hands free gestures! Wave your hand over the device to perform different actions
• Traffic camera alerts, never get a red light or speed camera ticket again!
• Customize wallpapers for day and night themes
• Startup options to make AutoMate even more effortless to use

Links
• About: http://www.bitspice.net/automate/
• FAQ: https://support.bitspice.net/portal/kb/automate
• Join the beta: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.bitspice.automate

Permissions:
• This app uses the Device Administrator permission. It is used to automatically lock the screen, if that option is enabled. Otherwise, we do not request this permission.
• This app uses Accessibility services. We request this permission on devices older than Android 4.4 to mirror certain notifications on AutoMate's home screen.
• Other permissions used explained in more detail here: https://support.bitspice.net/portal/kb/articles/automate-permissions-explained

Ratings and reviews

I wanted this to be a good alternative to Android Auto and Google Driving mode. It is not. When I try to use Google maps, it freezes. When I receive a text it reads it, but crashes when I try to reply. It displays the current street accurately about 30% of the time. Usually only displays the street I started on. It is quite useless. I'm disappointed.

Not great. Very crashy, and more often than not, even if it doesn't crash, the screen locks up. Very poorly developed too-for instance, the back/forward buttons on the audio player are tiny, as small as they can be, which is just stupid and thoughtless-isn't the whole point of a driving app to give you a big, simple UI where necessary? Apparently not...Galaxy S21, pro version of app.

Looked promising from the UI and options but navigation just doesn't work. When I try to search for a location it does nothing, gives no results. Also keeps crashing just from pressing the search button. Hasn't been updated in over a year so I guess it's been abandoned. Shame as it looks promising but a driving app with navigation that doesn't work isn't much good!